Oct. 12, 2013

Families in the poorest parts of Africa, where window screens are scarce, can protect themselves by sleeping under nets. / Mike Dubose/UMC

The CD

Simon Estes invites students throughout Iowa to help sell his new CD, “Save the Children, Save Their Lives.”

From each $15 purchase, $4 will benefit the students’ schools, which can apply for the funds from the Simon Estes Foundation. (The schools are guaranteed the money. The application process simply helps the foundation document the funds.)

Also from each purchase, $5 will go to the Iowa Students Care campaign to buy mosquito nets for Africa. (Each net costs $5. An additional $5 for distribution and training will be provided by the U.N. Foundation, plus corporate and private donors.)

The Christmas Concert

Simon Estes will perform with the Iowa Students Care Choir, comprised of high school singers from all of Iowa’s 99 counties, at 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 15, at Hilton Coliseum in Ames. Iowa State University choral director James Rodde will lead the choir, and Des Moines Symphony conductor Joseph Giunta will lead a youth orchestra.

Thanks to sponsorship from DuPont Pioneer and Dan Deery Toyota in Cedar Falls, all proceeds from the event will help buy mosquito nets.